Collect Pappy Van Winkle's Old Cabin Still 1967 Bourbon. If you are a true pappy collector, this is one you will need to vertical your collection!
The bourbon is still in its rare packaging from Pappy's Weller Distillery and in its original box with a glass stopper.
The history of American whiskey is full of stories with all the human drama of Shakespeare's plays. There are triumphs and tragedies; tales of creation and destruction. There are also skeletons in the closet. This is one of those stories. It's the story of a murder - but not the murder of a person; the murder of a historic brand of Bourbon. Like in most murders the motive is mundane, indeed prosaic. It is simply greed. The general outline of the story is simple. Old Cabin Still - a venerable brand originally from William LaRue Weller came, via Pappy Van Winkle, to Stitzel-Weller and was a respected brand for decades. Then a huge corporation, Norton Simon, that had been clumsily dabbling in Bourbon found themselves in a jam with a bunch of bad whiskeys they couldn't sell so they bought Stitzel-Weller so they could gradually dump the boondoggle failure whiskey into their bottom of the line Old Cabin Still brand. This ruined the whiskey - effectively murdering the brand.
In "But Always Fine Bourbon" by Sally Van Winkle Campbell, Old Cabin Still appears one of the stables of brands produced by Stitzel-Weller Distillery at its inception in 1935. It was the entry-level expression. The same juice as Old Fitz, but aged less. It was marketed as the "sportsman's" choice (see the ads, above, sporty with hunting dogs). One can imagine the idea is that sportsmen in the field might nip from the bottle or flask without the luxury of the long airing Old Fitzgerald needed. Having had the opportunity to have tasted some of the Old Cabin Still made in the Pappy era very recently!
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